phpBB is free and imo looks alot nicer then this. It has a much friendlier user control panel and comes COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY customizable for the host (incredible amount of options, controls and very nice admin control panel gui). There are tons of different downloadable themes / addons and stuff its the shit for forum hosting. Once downloaded you can actually just let it install itself. Host and others should really check it out. But all in all, this forum rocks. Gotten alot of info and help from everyone here.
After the amount of tsuris they just went through, I doubt they're going to completely change from VBB at this point - at least not any time soon. I doubt Superjoint could take the pain again.